ALLEN COUNTY OHIO - BIOGRAPHY: STEVENSON, Eli J. (1885)
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For Chey

Copied from "History of Allen County, Ohio" pub. Warner, Beers
& co. 1885 pgs. 747&748:
ELI J. STEVENSON, farmer P.O. South Warsaw, was born in Perry Township,
this county, on the farm where he now resides, September 2, 1848; son of
John and Susannah (Brentlinger) Stevenson, the former a native of
Kentucky, latter of Pickaway County, Ohio.  His paternal grandfather,
Francis Stevenson, a native of Kentucky, settled in Auglaize Township in
1830, where he cleared and improved a farm on which he lived and died. 
He reared a family of eight children: Elizabeth, James, John, Eli,
William, Jesse, Elias and Catherine, all now deceased.  John Stevenson,
the father of our subject, was reared in Kentucky, where he was born
January 15, 1806.  He was twice married, his first wife to whom he was
married, March 6, 1825, being Anna West of Champaign County, Ohio, and
the issue of this union was six children, Rachel, wife of John Ream;
Mary, wife of John Miller; Francis M., James I (deceased), Sarah J.
(deceased), and Anna, wife of  James Hollar.  For his second wife he
married, August 14, 1836, Miss Susannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Hofines) Brentlinger, early settlers of Auglaize County, Ohio, and by
this union were born eight children; Lucinda (deceased), Catherine
(deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), John (deceased), Silas W. (deceased),
William, Eli J., and Jefferson P. (latter deceased).  John Stevenson
settled in an early day in Perry Township, this county, on the farm now
owned and occupied by our subject, all of which he cleared and improved,
and where he resided until his death in 1854.  He was assessor of what
is now Allen and Auglaize counties for three terms before the counties
were divided, and was township assessor of Perry for several years.  He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics a Democrat. 
Our subject was reared on the old homestead, where he has always
resided.  He was married, November 26, 1871, to Catherine, daughter of
James and Mary (Naus) Carter, of Auglaize County, Ohio, by whom he has
four children: Susannah, Mary J., Andrew F. and Cuba M.  Mr Stevenson
has served his township as trustee.  In politics he is a Democrat.
copied by Gerry


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